Vocationalisation of Secondary Education Revisited [Hardcover]

List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface and acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction by the series editors. 1 Vocationalised Secondary Education Revisited; Jon Lauglo 2 Setting The Context: An Overview Of Secondary Education Reform With Particular Reference To The Asia-Pacific Region; Rupert Maclean 3 Promise and Performance in Vocationalised Secondary Education: Has the baby been thrown out with the bath water? David N. Wilson 4 Pre-vocational secondary education in Botswana; Sheldon G. Weeks 5 Vocationalisation of Secondary Education in Ghana; Albert K. Akyeampong 6 Vocationalisation of Secondary Education: Kenya Case Study; Kilemi Mwiria 7 Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Mozambique: Better than its Reputation; J?rgen Billetoft and AUSTRAL Consultoria e Projectos 8 Economic Returns to Vocational Courses in U.S. High Schools; John H. Bishop and Ferran Ma?e Consolidated Bibliography

The book is a cutting-edge contribution to the debate which has occurred for some time on the pros and cons of secondary education becoming more closely and explicitly related to preparing young people for the world of work. The book provides concrete examples of the vocationalisation of secondary education, with particular reference to the situation in Africa.

The target audience for the book includes policy-makers, practitioners, administrators, education planners, researchers, teachers and teacher educators with a concern about the relationship between secondary education and education for the world of work (with particular reference to technical and vocational education and training - TVET.)

The book appears in the Springer book series on Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects and compliments the International Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training and other publications in the Internationall3-